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| Magic City | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Period drama |
| Created by | Mitch Glazer |
| Starring | Jeffrey Dean Morgan Olga Kurylenko Steven Strait Jessica Marais Christian Cooke Elena Satine Dominik Garcia-Lorido Taylor Blackwell Danny Huston |
| Composer | Daniele Luppi |
| Country of origin | Template:TVUS |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Mitch Glazer Geyer Kosinski Lawrence Konner (co-exec) Ed Bianchi (co-exec) |
| Producers | Dwayne Shattuck Todd London (sup) Tim Christenson (co-prod) Jennifer Jackson (assoc) |
| Production location | Miami, Florida |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Beristain |
| Editor | Christopher Nelson |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production companies | Media Talent Group South Beach Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Starz |
| Release | March 30, 2012 – present |
Magic City is an American drama television series created by Mitch Glazer for the Starz network.[1][2] Starz previewed the premiere episode on March 30, 2012.[3] It premiered on April 6, 2012.[4] Starz renewed the series for a ten-episode second season on March 20, 2012.[5]
Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond (Danny Huston) to ensure the success of his glitzy establishment.
Cast
Main
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Isaac "Ike" Evans
- Olga Kurylenko as Vera Evans, Ike's wife
- Steven Strait as Steven "Stevie" Evans, a womanizing bartender and Ike's son
- Jessica Marais as Lily Diamond, Ben's wife
- Christian Cooke as Daniel "Danny" Evans, a wannabe lawyer and Ike's other son
- Elena Satine as Judi Silver, a prostitute
- Dominik Garcia-Lorido as Mercedes Lazaro, a maid turned Pan Am stewardess
- Taylor Blackwell as Lauren Evans, Ike's daughter
- Danny Huston as Ben "The Butcher" Diamond, a mobster
Recurring
- Yul Vazquez as Victor Lazaro, the hotel's general manager and Mercedes' father
- Kelly Lynch as Meg Bannock, the sister of Ike's late first wife
- Alex Rocco as Arthur Evans, Ike's father
- Leland Orser as Mike Strauss, a labor union official
- Michael Rispoli as Bel Jaffe, a bookie working for Ben out of one of Ike's shopping arcade stores
- Bradford Tatum as 'Dandy' Al Haas
- Willa Ford as Janice Michaels
- John Cenatiempo as Vincent Lamb
- Michael Beasley as Grady James
- Karen-Eileen Gordon as Florence
- Taylor Anthony Miller as Ray-Ray Mathis, a doorman
- Karen Garcia as Inez
- Shelby Fenner as Myrnna
- Patti Austin as Ella Fitzgerald
- Ricky Waugh as Barry "Cuda" Lansman
- Matt Ross as Jack Klein
- Todd Allen Durkin as Doug Feehan
- Chad Gall as Ethan Bell
- Garrett Kruithof as Stout
- Gregg Weiner as Phil Weiss
Episodes
| No. | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Year of the Fin" | Carl Franklin | Mitch Glazer | March 30, 2012 | 0.30[6] |
| 2 | 2 | "Feeding Frenzy" | Ed Bianchi | Mitch Glazer | April 13, 2012 | 0.37[7] |
| 3 | 3 | "Castles Made of Sand" | Ed Bianchi | Mitch Glazer | April 20, 2012 | 0.38[8] |
| 4 | 4 | "Atonement" | Simon Cellan Jones | Mitch Glazer | April 27, 2012 | 0.39[9] |
| 5 | 5 | "Suicide Blonde" | Simon Cellan Jones | Mitch Glazer | May 4, 2012 | 0.50[10] |
| 6 | 6 | "The Harder They Fall" | Ed Bianchi | Mitch Glazer and Lawrence Konner | May 11, 2012 | 0.43[11] |
| 7 | 7 | "Who's the Horse and Who's the Rider?" | Nick Gomez | Mitch Glazer | May 18, 2012 | 0.47[12] |
| 8 | 8 | "Time and Tide" | Ed Bianchi | Mitch Glazer | June 1, 2012 | 0.50[13] |
Production
Conception
The thing that’s really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.
– Mitch Glazer[14]
Magic City was created by Mitch Glazer, a native of Miami. Glazer wrote the series around his experiences growing up in Miami. He once worked as a cabana boy in a Miami Beach hotel and his father was an electrical engineer at the city's grand hotels in the late 1950s. He grew up listening to stories of the exploits of staff and clientele.[14][15] Many of the incidents that Glazer relates in the series "are based on stories that happened, that I saw, or older brothers and sisters or my parents told me." As a journalist, he did extensive research on what was happening in the lobbies of hotels in late 1950s and early 1960s. "There’s wiretaps — tapes they’ve made public now — where the CIA gives Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli $300,000 and poison powder to kill [Fidel] Castro in the Boom Boom Room in the Fontainebleau Hotel," he said.[14] Included in the series, Glazer states, will be CIA activities in Cuba and Civil Rights issues. He first envisioned "Magic City" as a feature film, but said he quickly realized he had more stories to tell than would fit in a film.[15]
Glazer had written different versions of Magic City for years. He originally wrote and sold it to CBS, who eventually let it go to the Starz network. "CBS was really nice to me and generous in letting it go to Starz. It’s not a procedural, it’s not a franchise. It needs to be allowed to do the sexuality and violence and the things that were part of Miami Beach in the 1959," he said.[14] In 2007, president and C.E.O. of the Starz network, Chris Albrecht was fired from HBO and joined Glazer and some of his friends for a research expedition to Havana.[16] "It was an insane group," Glazer remembered. "Jimmy Caan and Robert Duvall and Benicio Del Toro." They were visiting a Havana hotel designed by the architect Morris Lapidus when Glazer remarked to Albrecht, "You know, I grew up in this kind of hotel. My father worked with Morris Lapidus on the Fontainebleu and Eden Roc as an electrical engineer." In 2009, after Albrecht became president and C.E.O. of Starz, Glazer recalled, "I sent him a script I had written years before, and he called me literally hours later and said, 'This is amazing, let's do this.'"[16]
Reception
Critical reception
The first season has received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 of reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 56 based on 27 reviews.[17] Glenn Garvin of the Miami Herald said of the series "The sordid ugliness that festers inside Magic City's voluptuously beautiful wrappings makes irresistible television."[18] The Contra Costa Times' Chuck Barney praised the cast and visual style. He said in his review "Through the early episodes, nothing really happens that you couldn't see coming. Still, the setting is so seductive, the period details so vivid and the acting so stellar, that it's as intoxicating as a potent mojito."[19]
See also
References
- ^ Munzenrieder, Kyle (December 7, 2010). "Starz Orders Magic City TV Show Set in 1960s Miami Beach". Miami New Times. Village Voice Media. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
- ^ Vallejo, Stephanie (December 6, 2010). "Starz Picks Up Sixties-Era Drama Magic City". New York. New York Media Holdings. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
- ^ Shows A-Z - Magic City on Starz
- ^ Miami in the '50s is Starz's 'Magic City'
- ^ "Starz Renews 'Magic City' Ahead of Period Drama's April Premiere". Retrieved March 31, 2012.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (April 9, 2012). "Starz's 'Magic City' Off To Very Slow Start In Official Premiere, Boosted By Previews". Deadline. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (April 18, 2012). "Starz's 'Magic City' Ratings Up In Week 2". Deadline. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (April 23, 2012). "Friday Cable Ratings: NBA Basketball, 'Friday Night Smackdown', 'Storage Wars', 'Fairly Legal' & 'In Plain Sight'". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
- ^ Bibel, Sara (April 30, 2012). "Friday Cable Ratings: NFL Draft Wins Night, 'WWE Smackdown', 'Storage Wars', 'Fairly Legal', 'In Plain Sight', 'Ultimate Fighter Live' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (May 7, 2012). "Friday Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs Lead + 'WWE SmackDown', 'In Plain Sight' Finale, 'Neverland Pirates', 'Storage Wars' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ^ Bibel, Sara (May 14, 2012). "Friday Cable Ratings:NBA Playoffs Win Night, 'WWE Smackdown', 'Common Law', 'Storage Wars', 'Dream Machines' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (May 21, 2012). "Friday Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs + 'Sportscenter', 'Common Law', 'Fairly Legal', 'Storage Wars' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (June 4, 2012). "Friday Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs, + 'SportsCenter', 'WWE Friday Night SmackDown', 'Common Law', 'Fairly Legal', 'House of Payne' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Villarreal, Yvonne (March 30, 2012). "Creative Minds: Mitch Glazer talks 'Magic City' and 1950s Miami". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ a b Serjeant, Jill (April 4, 2012). "TV's "Magic City" revels in glamour, grit of 1950s Miami". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
- ^ a b Hogan, Michael (April 5, 2012). "'Magic City': Mitch Glazer Talks New Starz Show Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan". Huffpost TV. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
- ^ "Magic City - Season 1 Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
- ^ Garvin, Glenn (April 1, 2011). "Set-in-Miami 'Magic City' delicious, depraved". Miami Herald. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ Barney, Chuck (April 4, 2011). "Chuck Barney: Shonda Rhimes' 'Scandal' goes inside the Beltway". Contra Costa Times. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
